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  1. It would be vastly more efficient if we just gave corps their profits up front instead of waiting around for them to sell us crap we don't want.

  2. oh no, the surveillance state! on New York City Has a Y2K-Like Problem, and It Doesn't Want You To Know About It (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    > waylaying [...] the collection and transmission of information from some Police Department license plate readers

    good.

  3. As far as I can tell, dietary science is not science at all. There are a number of factors that are basically impossible to control for, and there's a deeply instilled idea of "you are what you eat" in the simplest interpretation. Ultimately, I just avoid added sugar, and mostly eat what I like. Worst case I'll die having enjoyed desert.

  4. $10 for what? on Verizon Says 5G Network Will Cost Extra $10 a Month (go.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that for fake 5G or real 5G?

  5. Navigating to the Bill of Rights paged mentioned in TFS leads to an essentially empty page. If I can't see my rights without registering, that's a nope. Maybe it's just a broken page? Not very confidence inspiring.

  6. They've done this to PDX too. Nothing but left lane parkers now. Speed up or move over you dawdlers!

  7. Re: 300 years ago they didn't have food stamps on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Hiring temp labor during the holiday season will be hard for anyone who doesn't meet or beat Amazon's minimum wage.

  8. Re:Thanks to all... on Debian Linux Turns 25 (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes yes! Thank you thank you!

  9. Lies on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    Management lies and incompetence.

    Unfortunately, the position I went to was also a lie and run by incompetents. At this point, I'm just following money because that's the only thing that isn't a lie from management and business people. Those bastards are all just liars, in every company, at every level.

  10. Re:Here's something even better on New Zealand Firm's Four-Day Week an 'Unmitigated Success' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had a couple of Wednesdays off this past month. It's wonderful. I'm contemplating figuring out how I can do that permanently.

  11. Re:Yes. Yes it is. on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    [...] except in times of war or national emergency.

    hmmm... I wonder how that plays out.

    checks headlines to see who we're at war with today

  12. Re:I didn't think it was possible on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    beat me to the punch on the extreme amount of mouse movement. From a high level the interface looks kinda nice actually (though it's not something I'd use -- dedicated xmonad user here). Simple, clean and context sensitive, I guess. But holy crap as soon as I tried the mock-up I was immediately annoyed at how far I had to move the mouse!

    Granted, for tablet use it probably helps prevent fat-fingering, and makes some sense, but I don't see myself spending most of my time at a tablet for the foreseeable future.

  13. Re:Microsoft Office is not an open platform either on Skype Protocol Has Been Reverse Engineered · · Score: 1

    Epyks-libre. It's Epyk!

  14. Re:Everyday street use. Really? on Buy Your Own Tron Lightcycle For $35,000 · · Score: 1

    In my experience (not as credible as yours, but 20yrs on the street including a stint as a messenger in DC), the amount of counter-steer needed is minimal. Often just a whisper of pressure on the inside hand will induce a turn. I totally believe, though haven't tried, the welded headset trick works fine, but probably requires more pressure to actually force the lean..

    From my observations, the counter steering is just to move the front wheel out from under the center of gravity thus inducing lean and subsequent turning where the CG moves back over the wheel. The inside pressure makes the front wheel move slightly in the opposite direction, unbalancing the system and allowing the lean.

    very much my anecdotal observations... but it's fun to play with little tiny countersteer pressures and see the results.

  15. Re:FFS! on Chilean Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day · · Score: 1

    I want a bed that does the chores!

    But then why would I screw my wife on it?

      I'd screw her on the *other* bed so the first one could keep doing the chores...

  16. Re:Aarghhhh on Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack · · Score: 1

    Is there really a need for "interesting solutions" in yet another 3-layer web app? It's a serious question as I don't do this kind of work. But it seems to me that this stuff is already so well known that production sites shouldn't be looking for new interesting (and thus untested) ways of hacking together queries. Forcing programmers to do things "the right way" for established designs and purposes doesn't really seem like a problem to me, though I'm sure it takes some of the fun out of it.

  17. Does anyone else misread AFACT? on Aussie Film Industry Appeals ISP Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    I've been reading through the threads here in my usual shallow manner, and I can't seem to stop reading AFACT as AFAICT. Thus "AFACT is an organisation..." becomes "As far as I can tell is an organisation...". I just have to give up.

  18. Re:echo is good enough for me. on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 1

    bc++

  19. Re:Very good question. on 2 Displays and 2 Workspaces With Linux and X? · · Score: 1

    I'll jump on the AOL-that bandwagon.

    I've been using xmonad for a while (maybe a couple of years? since version 0.4 or something anyway), and I'll probably never leave it. It's just so ridiculously easy once you hop over the learning curve. It's fast and simple. The community support is great too. ++xmonad.

  20. Re:Biofuels are the future. on Self-Destructing Bacteria Create Better Biofuels · · Score: 1

    mmmm... twinkie....

  21. At least we know the DB servers are cool on Google Patent Reveals New Data Center Innovations · · Score: 2, Funny

    They can cross that off the list and carry on with other solutions to the

    Error establishing a database connection

    problem...

  22. Re:A modest proposal ... on Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 · · Score: 1

    Did u find ur bukkit?

  23. Re:Until... on Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges At Each Stop · · Score: 1

    No small part of the unsprung weight is the brake structure and at least part of the weight of the drive shaft. An in-wheel motor serves both as drive and brake. Putting 4 motors in means you get to make each motor smaller to provide the same power. Further, the transmission losses of a current drivetrain (both in the transmission itself and in the u-joints of the drive shaft) are greatly minimized if not eliminated altogether allowing a further reduction in motor size.

    I have no idea how this all adds up in terms of unsprung weight, but I suspect it may be close to a wash. But that's only a guess and I'm too lazy to do the research on it.

  24. Re:The Kitchen Appliances Are Running Windows 7 on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    And what's with the pile of lemons?

    for the cocktails required to survive that drivel.

  25. Re:Corny Much... on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 2, Funny

    Black Guy: "Can you believe Microsoft put the launch of windows 7 in our hands?!"
    Group: *laughs*
    Black Guy: "Are they nuts or what?!"
    Group: *laughs*
    White Guy: "(maybe|only)*** by letting you be involved!"
    Group: "ooh harsh!"

    If only they had followed up with

    Black Guy: *pounds White Guy for being a jerk*
    White Guy: *screams like a girl while blood gushes from his nose*
    Women: *laughs*

    it would have avoided

    Me: *pukes*

    ***unintelligible